Not for generations has Britain faced the scale of the threat that menaces us today.
Iran, which has already targeted our overseas bases, may already be able to reach London with hypersonic missiles, while Russia probes our defences weekly. At home, we have Chinese spies targeting Parliament, undefended borders and homegrown Islamists flexing their muscles.
And yet the nation still awaits the Ministry of Defence’s much-delayed ten-year Defence Investment Plan (DIP), which Westminster sources now say could be published this week.
The DIP was supposed to swiftly follow Lord Robertson’s milestone ‘strategic defence review’ last summer, which called for a £68billion investment in
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